Gearbox Software founder and president Randy Pitchford has confirmed those that own Bulletstorm on PC won't be able to upgrade to the new Bulletstorm: Full Clip version of the game for free.

Posting on Twitter, Pitchford said although Gearbox is teaming up with Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly for the new version, the game was originally released by EA, thus making a free upgrade impossible. Additionally, it was made available on PC through Games for Windows Live, which isn't the case for Bulletstorm: Full Clip.

In response, Twitter users brought up Darksiders, which was originally published by THQ but re-released as Darksiders: Warmastered Edition by Nordic Games. Pitchford noted that, in this case, Nordic outright purchased past and future rights to Darksiders from THQ, which enabled them to re-release the game and provide a free upgrade to existing owners.

Gearbox, however, is simply helping People Can Fly launch the re-release as part of its new third-party publishing program.

@Gigaguy777@Rob_Dagg Different situation. Nordic bought all past-future rights of that. We don't own any of this - just helping PCF.

Bulletstorm: Full Clip releases on April 7, but those that preorder will be able to play through the entire game as Duke Nukem.

"Updated with hi-res textures, increased polygon counts, sterling audio, smoother framerates, and running in up to 4K resolution on PC and PS4 Pro, this upgraded version of the game comes with all of the previously-released DLC along with all-new content," reads a press release.